1. Nu! the hiding of Hadit.

nu = 460 = infinite / gematria
{Note “every number is infinite”, and consider:}
hadit = 322 = english
{The infinite “hides” Hadit in the pleroma, as gematria “hides” the English language in number.  cf. II:55.}

2. Come! all ye, and learn the secret that hath not yet been revealed. I, Hadit, am the complement of Nu, my bride. I am not extended, and Khabs is the name of my House.

come(f) = 126 = behold
{As in I:50.}

house = 683 = The world of Atziluth / A name of God implying Kether-Chokmah-Binah
{The unity extended in three ways.  See above for “khabs”.}

3. In the sphere I am everywhere the centre, as she, the circumference, is nowhere found.

sphere = 397 = the inner light (Kether) / all black / magic / serpent
{“Inner light” and “all black” are suggestive of the secret nature of the “centre”.  The circumference of the sphere is not separate from the centre, as previously discussed; and so the serpent, symbol of Hadit, is one with the sphere.}

centre = 468 = will / not / eternity (“a cycle of cycles”) / time
{The centre is “not”; yet it is identified with the circle, remembering:}
circle = 154 = time
circle(f) = 158 = eternal
{And furthermore, “will” gives the idea of “going”, which is the nature of Hadit (see II:7).}

circumference = 738 = sacred heart (f) / an acquiring; possession, goods
{Nothing but one of the three articles of Hadit (I:32), identifying centre with circumference.}

circumference(f) = 744 = stélé babalon (f) / infinite space / axle / A window (ChLVN) / word of power / threshold
{The identities are with Hadit (“axle of the wheel”), Nuit (“infinite space”) and with Babalon and the Beast (“stele babalon”); i.e., they are one, but dual, as the “word of power, double in the voice of the Master”.}

{Note also:}
circumference {C=2} = 740 = circle, wheel; cycle; eye, disk / Sanctuary of God [etc.]
circle {C=2} = 156 = BABALON
{Suggestively also centre – 2 = 466 = Nuit (Hb.)}

nowhere = 847 = West; darkness; reign of darkness / to charm; blind
{See the following verse.}

4. Yet she shall be known & I never.

known = 820 = the sphere / way; direction / strong / to force, overcome
{Refers to the “knowing” of the sphere of Nuit by Hadit, as a “going”.  “She shall be [the sphere]”.}

never = 668 = to shut up / the ears / test, means of judging
{Now we have something to compare with “nowhere” above – blindness and deafness!  Note also, in Hebrew:
944 = Purple
945 = Eyelids / to receive
with refernce to II:51, “Purple beyond purple: it is the light higher than eyesight.”}

5. Behold! the rituals of the old time are black. Let the evil ones be cast away; let the good ones be purged by the prophet! Then shall this Knowledge go aright.

knowledge = 818 = Thoth / enduring, magic
{Resumes the instruction given here, showing Tahuti as the Lord of Magick.  See “spells”, above, for the identification of the principal form of ritual magick in this Aeon.}

6. I am the flame that burns in every heart of man, and in the core of every star. I am Life, and the giver of Life, yet therefore is the knowledge of me the knowledge of death.

flame = 100 = ra / lust / feast [of temple dedication] / drug [etc.]
{This can be discussed elsewhere.  Essentially it is [K]teis-[P]hallus = KP = 100.  Also note Hadit’s qualities, expressed in various places in this chapter.}
flame(f) = 108 = ra(f) / nothing; no one / perfect, whole
{Fairly obvious, given all the references in Chapter One.}

core = 174 = torches / the splendour encircling him
{“He” is the flame (torch) encircled by the radiance of the star itself.}
core(f) = 176 = to go; to return / to eternity / hawk, falcon
{His nature is “to go” (a star is never still, of course, in relation to anything at all); “to eternity” = “To Me!”; the hawk is that of Horus, of which he is one form.}

death = 316 = asar(f)
{Hadit is veiled as Osiris (death), as discussed.  Relates to reincarnation, as well as to the mystical kind of death (= life).}

7. I am the Magician and the Exorcist. I am the axle of the wheel, and the cube in the circle. “Come unto me” is a foolish word: for it is I that go.

magician = 137 = Qabalah / a wheel
{cf. The Book of the Magician (Liber I) v.11, “His weapons fulfil the wheel; and on What Axle that turneth is not known unto Him.”}

magician(f) = 155 = seeker / a seed
{The seed is the phallus, Yod, Atu IX, etc.  cf. I:61.}

exorcist = 1384 = Alpha + Omega (spelt in full)
exorcist(f) = 1386 = nowhere found (f) / To show forth, appear, reveal
{Both “magician” and “exorcist” seem to show forth the wheel or circle which is “nowhere found”, although both suggest the centre thereof (“seed” and Alpha of Omega).  cf. II:4, “Yet she shall be known & I never”; and see also III:9 for “exorcist”.}

axle = 744 = circumference(f) / the word of power
{See above.}

axle(f) = 752 = Satan
{Satan is a “veil” for Jesus (the heart or axle) through the symbol of Baphomet (as discussed in the footnote to I:49).}

cube = 404 = law / holiness
{Rather unhelpful.}
cube(f) = 411 = three / palace of delight (Tiphareth) / habitation / emptiness
{Well the cube is Tiphareth (6 sides), and “three” is evidently related to the concept of dimensionality implicit in the cube (3 is mathematically the cubic power; note 2³ = 8 = A).  Since Hadit is “not”, the “habitation” would be one of “emptiness”.}

{“Cube in the circle” also seems to be a “revealed unity”, which conceals the point in the circle:}
cube in the circle (f) – 1 = 951 = circle; edge / the small point (Kether) / the reality / folly

come unto me = 1008 = prayer / teacher / archer
{Methods one might attempt to approach Hadit.  The “archer” evidently corresponds with Sagittarius and the Path of Samekh.}

8. Who worshipped Heru-pa-kraath have worshipped me; ill, for I am the worshipper.

heru-pa-kraath = 1032 = first swirlings (Kether)
{“Heru-pa-kraath” is simply another way of spelling “Horus the Child”, which is that child of the triform zero, Kether; silent as the first Ayre, one of three Ayres that correspond with Kether.  This therefore corresponds with 0, the first part of 0-00-000; as Ra-Hoor-Khuit with 00, and Heru-Ra-Ha with 000.}

ill = 90 = very silent
{Silence of H-P-K.}
worshipper = 1253 = to speak the truth
{cf. Liber LXV II:44, “Thou canst not charm the dolphin with silence, O my prophet!”}

9. Remember all ye that existence is pure joy; that all the sorrows are but as shadows; they pass & are done; but there is that which remains.

shadows(f) = 1090 = the creeping thing that creepeth / Chronos; time
{Time “creeps”.}
sorrows = 1340 = wheel, disc; revolution / of the temple
{The connection of “circle” with time is noted above.  Time passes away.}

{“That” and “remains” are rather dubious:}

that = 609 = star
that(f) = 617 = beast (Therion) / All-begetter (vocative) / pure, guiltless; shining
{“That” is the pure shining star, the “beast that whirleth forth”.}

{Also consider:}
remains = 424 = ambrosia / living creatures
{The divine dew of immortality.}
remains(f) = 432 = foundation / everywhere / eventide shadows
{Yet the shadow of time marches on!}

15. For I am perfect, being Not; and my number is nine by the fools; but with the just I am eight, and one in eight: Which is vital, for I am none indeed. The Empress and the King are not of me; for there is a further secret.

not = 430 = concealed / law / united / prophecy / number [etc.]
{The key of this book is “AL” or “LA”, hence of course the title.  Since both words mean “not” in Hebrew, this book may be styled “The NOT Book”; and here the identity of “law” returns it to its proper title, “The Book of the Law”!  Obviously the other identities are very helpful also.}

one in eight = 534 = particle [of dust] (I:61) / none, nothing [etc.]
{i.e., “none indeed”, the deed of giving, “whoso gives one particle of dust...” (I:61).  Also, “one in eight” is of course Aleph(1)–Lamed (Atu VIII), for Aleph (ALP = 111, “one, one, one”) is “none indeed” (Atu O; I:48).}

further secret = 1527 = the true gnosis
{See Crowley’s Commentaries for further on this verse.}

16. I am the Empress & the Hierophant. Thus eleven, as my bride is eleven.

{This has been described as [Atus] III + V = VIII, Lamed; which was XI in the old ordering.  Also 8 = CHITh = 418 = ABRAHADABRA (11 letters).}

hierophant = 642 = the splendour of unity (Chokmah)
{Atu V proceeds from Chokmah.}

empress + hierophant = 1280 = of the circle
{Hence the connection with Nuit, 11.  See also Crowley’s Commentaries.}

19. Is a God to live in a dog? No! but the highest are of us. They shall rejoice, our chosen: who sorroweth is not of us.

{“Dog” is of course the reverse of “God”, as “no” is of the God “ON”.}
no = 130 = on / OIN, Ayin, “an eye” / knowledge; skill
{ON becomes OIN, thus the phallic Yod is the God that does not live in a dog.}

20. Beauty and strength, leaping laughter and delicious languor, force and fire, are of us.

{The following are merely suggestive as being “of us”:}
beauty = 1504 = ecstasy / word of the aeon (λογος αιωνος)
strength = 980 = fortress / eye, vision / six and fifty (Gk.)
leaping laughter = 1061 = all-productive / palace of delight (Tiphareth) / and breathed into their nostrils the Neschamah of (their) lives / strong, hardy
leaping laughter (f) = 1077 = alive, vital
delicious languor = 1414 = excellent
delicious languor (f) = 1424 = scarlet woman / the woman of whoredom [etc.]

force = 180 = a spring, fountain (Hb.)
force(f) = 182 = to spring, leap (Gk.) / passive
{Evidently this is the complement of fire, it is the passive force of water which is the strongest force, because it resists all.}

fire = 120 = to be within (cf. II:6) / Samekh (in full; Sagittarius, 7) / shadow; shelter
{The flame within “every heart of man”.  And light produces a shadow; which in this sense is the refuge of Nu.}

54. Nor shall they who cry aloud their folly that thou meanest nought avail; thou shall reveal it: thou availest: they are the slaves of because: They are not of me.  The stops as thou wilt; the letters? change them not in style or value!

{Read “The stops as thou wilt; the letters change them not in style or value!” (there is no question mark in the MS.)  That is, the letters have no effect on the “stops”.}

55. Thou shalt obtain the order & value of the English Alphabet; thou shalt find new symbols to attribute them unto.

english alphabet = 763 = lightning-flash (Gk.)
english alphabet {A=8} = 777 = the flaming sword or lightning-flash of the Paths of the Tree of Life
{This is with only one A (the capital A of “Alphabet” – ungramatically written so) as 8.  It expresses the method of creation, which (in the “new symbols” of V.V.V.V.V.) is described in Liber Trigrammaton.  This numeration of “alphabet” is, I think, justified:}

alphabet {A=8} = 441 = Truth (AMTh)
{This is identified particularly with the circumference of the Sigillum Dei:}

obtain = 440 = perfect / great dragon / the house [etc.]
{The circumference of the S.D. specifies the relation of letters to numbers; it is the duplicated (40) form of E-H-N-B, which corresponds with letters of Enochian, as shown in the table.  Enochian is seemingly a coalescense of Hebrew and English.}

{Furthermore:}
english = 330 = hadit (f) / eight
{The key to the values of the English alphabet is Hadit = 8, as given in Cap. II:15.}

75. Aye! listen to the numbers & the words:
76. 4 6 3 8 A B K 2 4 a L G M O R 3 Y X 24 89 R P S T O V A L. What meaneth this, o prophet? Thou knowest not; nor shalt thou know ever. There cometh one to follow thee: he shall expound it. But remember, o chosen one, to be me; to follow the love of Nu in the star-lit heaven; to look forth upon men, to tell them this glad word.

glad word = 823 = letters [of the alphabet] (Hb.)
glad word (f) = 831 = ALP(f), Aleph / pyramid / phallus
{These identities summarise the cipher.  The 28 symbols (“4 6 3 8 A...”) are simply an enciphered version of the English alphabet, terminated by “AL”, which is equivalent to the 30^th Aire (as described in the preceding table, being A=L).34It must be noted that the 30^th Aire “A=L” identification was established prior to any consideration of this cipher verse.  The “full values” version of glad word illustrates this “AL” (as part of ALP, Aleph), extended by Peh (Phallus) to form the pyramid of the four elements in Earth.  This identification of the cipher with the English alphabet is further evidenced by:

this glad word (f) = 1350 = The sum of the nine paths of the Lesser Beard (Nun-Mem-Samekh, etc., to Tau inc.)

   These nine Hebrew letters correspond with nine English letters, and with the nine numbers in the cipher, viz., 4-6-3-8-2-4-3-24-89 (in no particular order).  The remaining 17 letters of the English alphabet then correspond with each of the letters in the cipher (A-B-K...), excluding the final “AL”.  In this way the cipher may be “expounded” without actually having any knowledge of how it was enciphered (if indeed it has been enciphered by some particular algorithm), according to the prophesy.35And note that the first meaning of “cipher” is “zero” (from the Arabic sifr).  The “numbers & the words” are respectively the cipher itself (i.e. the values of the English alphabet) and the text of the verse proper.  And note further:}

numbers = 814 = the word of power
{i.e. the “glad word”, the English alphabet.}
numbers(f) = 819 = rhythm, order
{The order thereof, or of numbers per se.}

77. O be thou proud and mighty among men!
78. Lift up thyself! for there is none like unto thee among men or among Gods!  Lift up thyself, o my prophet, thy stature shall surpass the stars.  They shall worship thy name, foursquare, mystic, wonderful, the number of the man; and the name of thy house 418.

{The “Boleskine” and “Aleister” numbers are found fitting (vide supra; but see also Crowley’s Commentaries).  Furthermore, “foursquare, mystic, wonderful” is obviously 4-1-8; but furthermore it may perhaps be interpreted as the mystic number of 4², which is the sum of the numbers 1 to 16 inclusive, which is 136 = to wonder (Gk.).}

34 It must be noted that the 30^th Aire “A=L” identification was established prior to any consideration of this cipher verse.

35 And note that the first meaning of “cipher” is “zero” (from the Arabic sifr).